MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

At his blog Kevin Huizenga posts another page from a forthcoming booklet for the James Sturm’s CCS. It has a number of Sturm invented comics symbols which are quite amusing (gotta love the waltzing duck). Huizenga even mentions the Dash Shaw strip I posted about earlier.

Dash Shaw has a great comics up at his site called “Cartooning Symbolia.” Borrowing from Mort Walker’s The Lexicon of Comicana and then adding to the cartooning symbols and their neologistic names, Shaw weaves a story based around iconographic cartooning symbols. It’s a masterful piece of work that cleverly mixes a story of an artist, [...]